Movie Reviews: Percy Jackson, Elysium, We're the Millers

Before you look for movie showtimes this weekend, remember to check out these movie reviews on Patch. These reviews come from Patch blogger Mark Glass and other local St. Louis critics. 

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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

• Run Time: 106 mins. 
• Starring: Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, Nathan Fillion, Jake Abel
  
• Rated: PG

Mark Glass, Patch blogger: "** This is the second feature film based on a series of popular fantasy novels for young adults. It chronicles adventures of a contemporary teen who happens to be the son of the Greek Sea God Poseidon and a mortal mom. In this round, Percy lives with fellow half-bloods..." Full Review

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Elysium  

• Run Time: 109 mins. 
• Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Wagner Moura
• Rated: R

Joe Williams, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "It seems contradictory, but the secret ingredient in a great science-fiction film is realism. We want to see a reflection of the world we inhabit, even if it’s coming from another planet. In the case of Elysium, the titular outpost is a satellite circling the earth. If you recognize this world of mansions..." Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek, The Riverfront Times: "In Neill Blomkamp's dystopian science-fiction fantasy Elysium, Damon's Max is a tattooed grunt stranded on the Earth of the future, a dismal, dried-out planet filled with have-nots living short, brutish lives. The rich have long ago decamped to their own shiny, inhabitable satellite, Elysium, where plants..." Full Review

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We're the Millers  

• Run Time: 110 mins. 
• Starring:  Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Ed Helms, Thomas Lennon, Jason Sudeikis
  
• Rated: R

Inkoo Kang, The Riverfront Times: "Horrible Bosses co-stars Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston team up again as reluctant drug mules in We're the Millers. But this film's eagerness to please functions as a slow poison, draining The Millers of its vitality by rendering its characterization uneven, its potential undeveloped, and its plot predictable and stupid. Sudeikis can't find a center amid..." Full Review